Top 10 most armed states

[Buckshot Bob]

This is just NFA stuff, so just imagine the numbers of everything else out there 

 

[J-BAR #18287]

Those are impressive numbers and I think that was his point.

 

His list is close to population by state, with NewYork, Illinois, and Michigan left out, which just tells us that no matter where Americans live, they are going to own guns.

 

state rank by population (2019 numbers):

 

1-California

2-Texas

3-New York 

4-Florida 

5-Illinois 

6-Pennsylvania

7-Ohio

8-Michigan 

9-Georgia 

10-North Carolina 

 

The surprises in the gun list (Alabama, Arizona, Virginia) really aren’t surprises if you have ever shot with cowboys from those states!  

[Pat Riot]

10. Alabama 

9. Ohio

8. North Carolina 

7. Arizona

6. Georgia 

5. Pennsylvania 

4. California

3. Virginia

2. Florida

1. Texas

 

 

[Alpo]

Thank you Pat. His voice is annoying - almost as annoying as his speech pattern. And he was taking forever to tell me what I wanted to know.

[Pat Riot]

52 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Thank you Pat. His voice is annoying - almost as annoying as his speech pattern. And he was taking forever to tell me what I wanted to know.

I cheated. Once he started blathering about gold and the coming doomsday I started skipping through and getting the info that a simple spreadsheet would have had at a glance. 
 

 

[Kid Sopris, SASS Regulator]

And Idaho is not on the list. I’m offended…or worried that all those retired LEOs that moved here, left their guns back where they came from. 

[Buckshot Bob]

1 hour ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Those are impressive numbers and I think that was his point.

 

His list is close to population by state, with NewYork, Illinois, and Michigan left out, which just tells us that no matter where Americans live, they are going to own guns.

 

state rank by population (2019 numbers):

 

1-California

2-Texas

3-New York 

4-Florida 

5-Illinois 

6-Pennsylvania

7-Ohio

8-Michigan 

9-Georgia 

10-North Carolina 

 

The surprises in the gun list (Alabama, Arizona, Virginia) really aren’t surprises if you have ever shot with cowboys from those states!  

I’m not sure if you can own class 3 stuff in Ill or NY . I know here in Mi you can. I know allot of people with suppressors , just a couple with machine guns. Here you used to have to get the approval of your sheriff but they did away with that about 15 or 20 years ago. 

[Alpo]

I'm guessing all those registered machine guns in California are owned by the movie companies. Because it's almost impossible for John Q Public to own a machine gun in California. I read years ago that it was possible if the gun was C&R. So while Hardpan, for example, could not own my Thompson, since it's a West Hurley that was made in 1986, but he could own a Colt-made 1921.

 

Unless that I read was incorrect.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I'd like to see the most per capita.  Let's get some population figures in here.

[Buckshot Bob]

6 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I'm guessing all those registered machine guns in California are owned by the movie companies. Because it's almost impossible for John Q Public to own a machine gun in California. I read years ago that it was possible if the gun was C&R. So while Hardpan, for example, could not own my Thompson, since it's a West Hurley that was made in 1986, but he could own a Colt-made 1921.

 

Unless that I read was incorrect.

It may be from people who were grandfathered in, When I moved to CA in the 80’s the gun laws actually weren’t that bad . I actually had a CPL there when most states wouldn’t even issue one. When you look at the CA numbers I think you also have to consider Los Angeles county has more people than many states.

[Noah Mercy, SASS #29066]

5 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I'd like to see the most per capita.  Let's get some population figures in here.

That is most likely Wyoming. Plenty of NFA stuff here and a very low population...and I know it had the highest per capita a decade ago.

[Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life]

Per capita is the only useful statistic.

My Idaho plus Wyoming and Montana are my votes. The only neighbours that don't have guns are Californian transplants. I have no long term concerns about them because we are in grizzly country and they like to take walks!

;-)

 

[Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life]

There was a lawyer from California that sued to close our state long distance range South of Coeur d' Alene a few years ago. He left - he could not get a plumber, heating/AC

repairman, get a grocery cashier to serve him, get served in a restaurant or anything else.

Plus, our legislature passed eleven range protection laws that closed any conceivable loophole

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life]

Oooops North of CdA.

[The Shoer 27979]

1 hour ago, Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life said:

Per capita is the only useful statistic.

My Idaho plus Wyoming and Montana are my votes. The only neighbours that don't have guns are Californian transplants. I have no long term concerns about them because we are in grizzly country and they like to take walks!

;-)

 

Time out there Mud Marine, I will be a California transplant to grangeville ID around April or May, I Honesty do not know how many guns I own since the boating accident were I lost them in the ocean.

NOT ALL CALIFORNIANS ARE LIBERAL GUN HATERS. I am moving to Idaho to enjoy some freedom

[watab kid]

On 1/31/2023 at 6:18 PM, Kid Sopris, SASS Regulator said:

And Idaho is not on the list. I’m offended…or worried that all those retired LEOs that moved here, left their guns back where they came from. 

 

 

i appreciate what your saying , its interesting that minnesotta is not on the list either yet we put over one million gun owners in a deer stand every fall on a single weekend , i suspect anyone looking to invade any state in the union save hawaii maybe might encounter a bit of resistance they would not expect , 

[sassnetguy50]

14 hours ago, The Shoer 27979 said:

Time out there Mud Marine, I will be a California transplant to grangeville ID around April or May, I Honesty do not know how many guns I own since the boating accident were I lost them in the ocean.

NOT ALL CALIFORNIANS ARE LIBERAL GUN HATERS. I am moving to Idaho to enjoy some freedom

Sounds like you better not file a lawsuit to close a shooting range.

[Kid Sopris, SASS Regulator]

1 hour ago, sassnetguy50 said:

Sounds like you better not file a lawsuit to close a shooting range.

Close the Gate behind you, Please.

[The Shoer 27979]

8 hours ago, sassnetguy50 said:

Sounds like you better not file a lawsuit to close a shooting range.

Are you kidding I want more shooting ranges. My daughter  live in grangeville and told me I have to teach here how to reload

[The Shoer 27979]

6 hours ago, Kid Sopris, SASS Regulator said:

Close the Gate behind you, Please.

I will not only close the gate, I will build a wall

[Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life]

Boise is 40 square miles surrounded by reality. Our biggest problem is people from Portland and Seattle.

Escapees from California are welcome!

Eastern o

Oregon and Washington counties want are tryi.g to seced and become part of Idaho. Our legislature is introducing legislation to accommodate them.

 

[Kid Sopris, SASS Regulator]

33 minutes ago, Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life said:

Boise is 40 square miles surrounded by reality. Our biggest problem is people from Portland and Seattle.

Escapees from California are welcome!

Eastern o

Oregon and Washington counties want are tryi.g to seced and become part of Idaho. Our legislature is introducing legislation to accommodate them.

 

 And there lies the problem. A free society that tolerates misfits providing they don’t go 5150. 

[watab kid]

a free society also can band together to tar a feather those that threaten the peaceful harmony we enjoy , not to incite unrest , im strictly thinking peaceful protest here , kinda like those damn windmills off the beaches in ritzy neighborhoods of summer homes for the elite on the east coast - not in my backyard , or the front yard either , ya mucked up your yard , clean it up or live with it , dont bring it here , 

 

no need for a lynch party yet but if i recall correctly italy hung both mussini and his  concubine from lamp poles , seems some of that happened in france after the germans pulled out , we dont need national socialists or anti-national socialists , but then i was just speculating here on history repeating itself like it tends to do ,